EU cloud fragmentation impacting trust
Grazed from CBROnline. Author: Editorial Staff.
The European cloud market, from a legal standpoint, is still a fragmented one which leads to a complexity which may impact trust in cloud adoption for companies. Across 28 European countries, no specific cloud contract laws were found to exist and no ‘cloud cases’ were seen to be reported.
This has resulted in general laws being applied to a cloud environment, which leads to fragmented solutions internationally on various topics, with one key example relating to the debate on the return of data stored in the cloud after a contract’s termination. There is also confusion on an EU level on how to deal with protected information that is stored in the cloud…